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Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: “Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are,” the gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote in Physiology of Taste (1949, 1), a statement that establishes a clear link between food and identity. As food is vital to living beings, it is certainly not limited to the satisfaction of a biological need. Food is eminently social, as Roland Barthes wrote in 1961: “For what is food? It is not only a collection of products… It is also, and at the same time, a system of communication, a b...

Source: Sillages critiques

DOI: 10.4000/16uyl

Authors: Pauline Amy de la Bretèque, Jaine Chemmachery, Corentin Jégou, Alexis Tadié

Language: French

Topic: Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7214918686

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